Strategic Posture Review: South Africa

Abstract

This World Politics Review Strategic Posture Review highlights the road travelled by South Africa in conducting an ambitious foreign policy since its democratic transition in 1994. The constitutional architecture that was put in place at that transition has in many ways framed the imperatives of South African foreign policy in this new era. In the main, South Africa's engagement with the region, the continent and the world over the last decade and a half has been marked by tension between ethical multilateralism and instrumental pragmatism